What you are calling prejudicial in that case they call experience. They correlate past statistical data on how the variables they do have access to predict the outcomes they want.
If that a satisfying situation? No way. Is including your experience better than just using the data you have for a current set of candidates? Hell yes. On average, hell yes. Some students will get screwed but on average IF you are smart, not a bigot, rational, have good past data, etc, your results WILL be better. Of course, most people aren't all of those things.
But what can you do other than make your best try at an optimal outcome? If they went just on raw present data, quality of students admitted to Stanford/MIT would probably go down and 99% of students would be asian. Does that seem better?
s/sloppy thinking/nuanced yet practical problem solving/g
I'm also not sure what that has to do with this article (which doesn't hang on any particular definition).
Others suggest its because of how many legacy students the upper tier accept. Whatever the reason, SAT scores are not the only factor in admission because SAT is not the sole arbiter of a good University student, or at least that's what the University leadership say.
Personally, I think its well-meaning racism, and, as they say, the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. But my thinking it ain't facts, ain't statistics. Only the facts, carefully analyzed matter in the end.
Exactly. This is why basketball teams are missing out by their pig-headed refusal to send talent scouts to evaluate Rwanda's Pygmies.
This is exactly the behavior that you condemn, unless I've missed something.
You discriminate every time you purchase one product over another, take one job over another, live in one area over another, befriend one person over another, etc. We all do. The key to doing it well is clear, analytical judgement about such decisions. Personally, I haven't seen much of that in University admissions at any school.
This issue of universities is completely different. Even private universities get public funding. Universities are inexplicably tied to tax payers including Asians. This is where I see the problem. Either remove public funding from universities operating admission based on racism or stop having a racist admission standard.